Israeli professors may be only ones allowed to head universities

02.04.2012                      10.Nissan. 5772

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Israeli professors may be only ones allowed to head universities

Anticipated change in regulations is not expected to retroactively invalidate the recent appointment of former Cellcom CEO Amos Shapira as president of the University of Haifa.

The Council for Higher Education is expected to require that presidents of all institutes of higher education be professors, council sources said Sunday.
The council stipulated in 2003 that all college presidents must be professors, but no such prerequisite was expressly stated for universities….